Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Sovereign Agency, by Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves
1. Sovereignty in the Skies: An Anthropology of Everyday Aeropolitics, by Rebecca Bryant
2. Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African Republic, by Louisa Lombard
3. "Because I Have a Hookup": Cheating Citizens and the Unbearable State in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina, by Azra Hromadžić
4. Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy: Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan State, by Sara Friedman
5. Gender, Violence, and Competing Sovereign Claims in Afghanistan, by Torunn Wimpelmann
6. Everyday Sovereignty in Exile: People, Territory, and Resources among Sahrawi Refugees, by Alice Wilson
7. Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People,Their State, and the Problem of Mobility, by Dace Dzenovska
8. Sovereign Days: Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from Below, by Panos Achniotis
9. The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State, by Joyce Dalsheim
10. Signs of Sovereignty: Mapping and Countermapping at an "Unwritten" Border, by Madeleine Reeves
Epilogue: The Ironies of Misrecognition, by Jens Bartelson